In the days before VHS and DVDs did you ever go see movies over and over in the theater (cinema)? Many times?

Jurassic Park. I had friends who saw Titanic multiple times. Once was more than enough for me.

📽 When I was young, you could actually spend the entire day in the theater watching the same movie over and over again. We also went to Arrow Drugs before the movie to buy our candy and treats, or brought them from home. The price for junk food at the theater was absolutely outrageous.

Yeah, when I was a teen, there were a few movies I'd see over and over. I'd ride my bike to the theater on weekend afternoons and get a cheap-ass matinee ticket, to see some actor I'd developed a crush on.

One of the many benefits of living in the days when kids were allowed out on their own, you could go see your crush in a movie theater without your mother along!

I would always see a movie at least twice, if I liked the movie. You can't take everything in with just one viewing.

We loved the old time horror classics. In those days, it wasn't about blood and gore, it was about using your imagination about what was happening that you never actually saw on the screen. Scared the hell out of myself on many occasions. Nowadays, today's horror films make the classic look like cartoons.

Remember seeing Madonna's "who's that girl" a number of times in the theater for madonna, the music and the gorgeous musclebound dumb full of cum character Buck especially his shirtless scene!....

It wasn't before VHS and DVDs, but I saw "Contact" (1997) four times within 6 weeks.

Only in porn theaters. I'd sit there and jerk it all day,

R7... I hear you, I used to see quite a number of movies over and over in the theater, that is how I spent my "entertainment money". If I loved a movie for all of it, the actors, storyline, cinematography, music, etc. I simply COULD NOT wait until it came on cable and the experience of seeing it on a big screen was a MUST for me...

I never could watch movies over and over again. The only ones I'm sure I went to more than once were "Another Country", "A Room with a View" and "Maurice".

Our neighborhood theater in Little Italy always featured two movies for 25¢ on Sunday Afternoons. After stuffing ourselves with my Grampa's spaghetti and meatballs, that's where we headed. My Gramps always had little bags of Italian cookies to take with us, and gave us 10¢ for treats. Those were the days of penny candy and giant candy bars for 5¢.

Loved Sudays. And I sure miss my Grampa.

R11 is an eldergay

This is an eldergay thread, R12 - your comment is redundant.

Yes, little Bambino, @12.

And damn proud of it !

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[quote]Which movie did you go and see more than once?

Before I owned a VHS:

Crocodile Dundee

Police Academy 3

Garbage Pail Kids

Problem Child

My mom used to sneak in snacks by hiding them in her vajeen

Yo momma's vajeen *WAS* a snack R17!

I must have seen Tootsie 77 times.

I saw That's Entertainment about 21 times because I worked at another theater and I could get passes. It's a wonderful stoner movie on the big screen. After that many times we had favorite lines like Liza's "Thank *God* for film!" (in her Peretti kidney bean necklace and equestrian belt buckle). You also start to notice things like the strap breaks on a chorus girl behind Gable in Puttin' on the Ritz. And there are two young girls seemingly batting a ball( or birdie) behind Chevalier during Little Girls, but they're actually not batting anything.

A Hard Day's Night---7 times.

Rome and Juliet------2-3 times.

The Boys in the Band--2-3 times.

Elvis-----------------More than I'm revealing here!

Romeo in r21.

I've not lived in a time without videos or DVDs except when I was a very young child.

So no.

I saw Superman the Motion Picture about 10 times in a 3 week period in 1978.

[quote] Remember seeing Madonna's "who's that girl" a number of times in the theater for madonna, the music and the gorgeous musclebound dumb full of cum character Buck especially his shirtless scene!....

James Dietz (1960-1987)

Bodybuilder James Dietz was one of the more surprising deaths of an actor with a big movie coming out — he was a big, strapping, healthy-seeming guy and just 27 years old when he died April 22, 1987, just over three months before the August premiere of the Madonna (b. 1958) vehicle Who's That Girl.

In the film, Dietz plays Bucky, a hunk who catches the eye of a deb Wendy Worthington (Haviland Morris, b.1959) who is the fiancée of the film's male lead (Griffin Dunne, b. 1955). He gets some good laughs, too.

His scenes were lightweight and charming. His death, from Wolfe Parkinson syndrome, an irregular heartbeat, affected many of those around him, as is demonstrated by this thread of people reminiscing about him 23 years after he died.

I believe I saw MAME five times.

Buck from "Who's That Girl?"

^I condole you.

I was young, r28, I was stoned and willing to cut Lucille more slack in those days.

small voice: “Staying Alive.” - I don’t know why - I loved that cheesy movie!!! . Then a few years later I think that I went to see Dirty Dancing at least once a week for a whole summer. …. I think it was in 1972 when I made my dad cry - The Sound of Music was in re-release at the Hastings Ranch theatre and you would have thought that Santa Clause was running the projector - I talked about it non stop and acted it out non stop ( my mom had already taken me twice) until my dad hit tears of frustration and took me and my little school friend Patty the next day - mind you my Dad looked like Tony Soprano. ……. Years later I drove my green Volvo out to the Rosemead theatre three Saturday afternoons in a row and sat by myself in Terms of Endearment - and I would cry and cry …….

I saw these 2x:

Saturday Day Night Fever

The Spy Who Loved Me

Back to School

Dressed to Kill

[quote] When I was young, you could actually spend the entire day in the theater watching the same movie over and over again.

What year was this?

[quote] Jurassic Park. I had friends who saw Titanic multiple times. Once was more than enough for me.

What part of before VHS and DVD did you not understand, dear?

Like R10, I watched “Another Country” over and over again on VHS. I was so obsessed, I recorded the audio on my tape recorder and listened to it while going to sleep at night.

I also watched “Pretty Woman” and (also like a previous poster) “Contact” in the cinema multiple times. There are others, I’m sure.

R33s objection applies to me too. Sorry, thread.

I saw Amadeus four times within a month, the same with The Last Emperor.

Alien and Aliens, each twice.

Batman and Batman Returns- each twice. I had a large collection of DVDs of my favorite movies, but now they all converted to DVDs.

The Godfather, I & II

An Unmarried Woman

Love Story (ironically, in our largest college auditorium, several weekends in 1971)

Annie Hall

The Graduate

Cabaret

The Sound of Music

I once had my Mom drop me off at the theatre to watch "The Poseidon Adventure" from the earliest matinee to the latest showing.

Across the year it played in the theaters, I saw the original 'Star Wars' over a hundred times (back in the 50's, my mom had worked for the theater owner, and he let me in to see it for free as many times as I wanted).

I probably saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' (1980) a couple dozen times (different theater; I had to pay for these).

I can’t believe at one time I think that I saw Yentl in the movie theatre at least 3 times. Now if I was flipping channels I wouldn’t even pause.

Not over and over, but a few movies I saw twice. I saw Star Wars: a New Hope opening night with friends. I took my little sister to see it weeks later. All the President's Men because I was interested in the how Pacula used lighting to induce paranoia.

Not really by choice, but I think I saw Mary Poppins in a movie theatre at least seven or eight times.

My parents brought us kids to see it at Grauman's Chinese in Hollywood when it first came out. .. Not long after, it began playing at the local movie theatre near where we lived in Santa Monica, so we went to see it again. .. Then, two or three friends of mine wanted to see it, so I went with each of them as well (same theatre).

That would have been far too many times already, but then about nine months later, we went on vacation to visit relatives in three different Midwestern states. "Mary Poppins" had finally made it to these podunk towns. and with nothing else to do and only one theatre in each town, we went to see it with our cousins who were all very excited about seeing the movie for the very first time.

As I recall, they were all very impressed that I could sing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" by heart.

We would stay at a campground on the Cape across from the Wellfleet drive-in -- one rainy summer week we saw Arthur three times.

I always go see The French Connection, Singing In The Rain, The Nights of Cabiria, Breathless and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three whenever they screen at Film Forum. More recently I've seen both Diva and The Plot Against Harry there twice.

When I was at college in Boston, I was so exhausted all the time (I thought I was supposed to be exhausted, it was college). There was a theater within walking distance that was running "Harold and Maude" all day every day. I went every day for weeks, because I didn't have the strength to do much else. I finally went to the doctor and was diagnosed with what was then called "infectious hepatitis" and everyone around me had to get injected with gamma-globulin shots. I have no idea how many times I saw "Harold and Maude" or how many showings I slept through.

I was a voracious cineaste as a teen so haunted all the venues to see all kinds of cinema. Colleges, retro houses, museums, galleries, festivals. You couldn't see much of what I was seeing anywhere but such places. This continued through college. Back then many big colleges had their own celluloid collection. I got a student job that gave me access to the film collection and I projected some of my favorite movies all the time, just for myself or a friend. And in NYC in the early 80s there was an explosion of cinema culture and all kinds of clubs and galleries were projecting movies. I met Bill Landis and was going to his screenings at clubs and I got friendly with the weirdos of underground cinema and their little fiefdoms film centres. Mike Kuchar was a sweetie to me and taught me optical printing and how to get my freak on.

I went to see A Hard Day's Night twice.

Back in the day, I sat and watched "A Hard Day's Night" 4 times in a row. Nobody ever had to leave the theater until the building closed!

We had a revival cinema in our city and I was always taking someone with me to see Camille and the glory that was Garbo when it was on.

The last movie I saw twice at a movie theatre was Black Swan. I loved the pitch, the pace, the casting (esp Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder), the lines ("Attack it!! Attack it! Attack it!", "It's MY turn!" "Did you fuck him?"), and the fever dream quality of it all.

Mary Poppins, Sound of music, Star Wars, Grease, Diva, Choose Me, A weird mix but from age 3!I was obsessed with MP and SoM. The Star Wars came out and for whatever reason I went with many different groups of friends on consecutive weekend. Grease was another musical obsession. Then in college in the ‘80s I discovered more Art Films and got obsessed with DIVA!!

R50 - I had a spinster great aunt who lived in Brooklyn Heights that I always got along with. In high school she would meet me at the ferry terminal and we’d spend afternoons in the city. Together we saw Starstruck and Diva. I loved them both so much I went with school friends to see them each again.

American Graffiti and Jaws

One of my cousins watched Titanic in the theaters a ridiculous amount of times. I watched Bobs Burgers twice. Went opening day and few days later when someone in the group suggested a movie. I wasn’t watching maverick. My brother was really a movie theater guy precovid. Mostly action movies especially Marvel. I know he’d see different movies in the same day and if he really liked something he’d come back and watch it again.

r19 Tootsie was the first movie I have a clear recollection of going to see with my mother and grandma. My sheer excitement should have told my mom something right then and there. Movies I saw over and over again were Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Temple of Doom, Labrinth, Beetlejuice, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Batman. I saw Terminator 2 more than once also.